UCI Down with Hawakaya Discussion

First:

You will select one question that you want to engage with and provide a response. Your response should be no less than 200 words. Please include parenthetical citations in your responses to show what ideas are coming from the lecture versus an assigned source. Your response must be posted by Wednesday November 10, 11:59 p.m. No late submissions will be accepted.

Note: You will not be able to see your classmates’ posts until after you have posted. Thus, you will need to do the first part to move onto get any credit.

Second:

You must choose two different colleagues who have written on two questions that you did not answer. You will need to substantively respond to two classmates (meaning actual engagement with the topic addressed). Simply complimenting or thanking a colleague for their comments will not be considered a responses moving forward and you will not receive credit for this reply. You do not have to agree with your classmates. Civil and respectful debate is encouraged. Reply posts should be approximately 50 words for each. Your peer replies must be posted by Wednesday, November 10, 11:59 p.m. No late submissions will be accepted. If for some reason you have technical difficulties, please email me immediately to alert me to your issues and avoid losing credit it possible.

In total, there are three parts. Each of the questions for our discussion boards are geared toward helping you prep for your course exams. It can be helpful to use our discussion board questions as a study guide for the midterm.

Week 6 Discussion Prompts (Please Respond to 1 Question and two colleagues):

1. In “Down with Hawakaya!,” how did the student-led strikes for an Ethnic Studies Department at San Francisco State University shape broader debates over civil rights around the nation? How did S.I. Hayakawa and the model minority/assimilationist thesis become a lightening rod for the generational shifting of political alliances among some Nisei and the rise of the conservative backlash in the 1960s and 1970s? Please cite two examples from the reading to support your analysis.
2. Who were the TWLF and why did the TWLF refer to themselves as a part of the Third World? How did the internationalist politics of the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State University and UC Berkley lead to the creation of Ethnic Studies Departments around the country? Please cite two examples from the readings to support your analysis.
3. Looking specifically at feminist organizing in the 1960s, how did race and class complicate these efforts? Can you see any similarities with the Ida B. Wells and Jane Addams discussions? How was Second-Wave Feminism representative of both a generational and racial divide? How does Angela Davis’s discussion of women’s reproductive rights and the Combahee River Collective’s Statement frame the issue of women’s rights as an intersectional conflict? Please cite two examples from the assigned materials to support your analysis.